Improvement in baskets



`N.PETERS, PHOTO-LITHOGRAFHER. WASHINGTON. D. C.

' UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE. f

ABRAHAM VAN RIPER, yOE WASHINGTON TOVNSHIP, BERGEN COUNTY,

' d l V NEW JERSEY.

IMPROVEM ENT IN BASKETS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 5,2'47, lated August 2l, 1847.y

To @ZZ whom it may concern.-

Beit known that I, ABRAHAM VAN RIPER, of Washington township, county of Bergen, and State of New Jersey, have invented an Im proved Basket for Peaches, Apples, Corn, &c. and I hereby declare the following is a full and exact description of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, which make a part of this specification.

The object of my improvement is to prevent the bottom of fruit-baskets from sinking or falling down. This I effect by introducing two hoops of about one-fourth inch thickness-the one on the bottom of the inside of the basket and the other on the bottom of the outside of it. These hoops are connected by rivets or nails, and thereby securing between them the coved, cannot yield by an inside pressure, as

the hoops (on the principal of the abutment The application of two hoops, fastened toi gether by nails or rivets, so as to inclose the standards which form the archedlbottom of the basket and prevent them from yielding or falling down by the pressure of fruit, Sie., f

which the basket may contain.

' AREADI. VAN HIPER.

Witnesses:

EDWD. JoNEs, JAMES STovAL, Jr.

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